Apple's consumer ratings highest ever

[tkd1234]

no, mac's are just awesome, and you get a completely different buying experience when you buy one. I have bought about 4 PCs, and it was pretty boring, as was setting it up and playing with them for the first time. When you buy your first mac, you become part of a family, the service in their stores is possibly the best i have seen in retail(and i work customer service), and when you start it...just wow. plus i got a free ipod touch for buying this macbook...WOO HOO. thank god for bein' a student

 

[bogatrice]

I love Vista. 32-bit was occasionally slightly flaky (various little things) but 64-bit has been rock solid for me for months, literally zero incidents of note. I also just bought an iMac about six weeks ago and I love it too! But I've had more issues with it than I ever had with Vista. Again, it's just little things from time to time, but the whole "it just works" thing really cracks me up now.

It's become my primary computer. And I have two separate installations of Vista on the iMac, although I use OS X more. Some of the features involving windows/desktop management (Exposé & Spaces) are vastly superior to Vista as far as I'm concerned. I can literally fly around the computer.

I got the iMac because I was in a bit of a funk and I was trying to spend my way out of it (it didn't work). But I'm sure glad it worked out this way.

 

[D-Base]

IMO Vista is not nearly as bad as everyone says. I'm beginning to think that people who say that Vista sux either never used it, or used it on a crappy machine. You know, Vista is NOT for every PC. I switched from XP to Vista a month and a half ago and I'm loving it.

About Apple, I'm really happy for them and I hope they keep up the good work, strong Apple means more efforts from Microsoft to get better and better. Competition is great

 

[ANDORYUU]

I think Vista is really awesome. I like it a lot. I think, as the above poster said, it depends how powerful your machine is.

I don't think you can really compare Windows to OS X. OS X is more for your casual daily user who just wants to browse the internet and type stuff out. Sure you can use aperture or whatever their photography program is for editing but you need a mac desktop for that. Windows is better when you'd actually like to figure out and mess with the actual computer and change most of the settings to your liking.

But that's just my 2 cents. Albeit Macs are really part of a fad right now.

Many reviews show that the MacBook can handle these apps with ease and just as well as a desktop Mac. In fact the best MacBook to get (cost v performance) is the 13-inch: White 2.4GHz (The mid-range one). It gets Five ***** every time, see The Gadget Show website.

Also, desktop computers of all kinds (PC/MAC) are in their nature more powerful than their laptops counterparts and will run apps much faster.

I think you are un-informed if you think that a Mac and OS X is just for casual users! There are productivity apps for the Mac, maybe just not as many as for the standard PC. Just search the web and you can find a Mac version of most apps. And please could you tell me how many home users use their Windows based PC for productivity anyway?

Could you be more specific on WHAT a Windows PC can do better, when you are wanting to mess about with and figure out the actual computer, and WHAT settings you can change to your liking. As your statement is rather vague and adds no weight to your arguement. I don't understand how you can say this without facts, as you also stated that you can not really compare Windows with OS X.

And I won't go into your FAD statement!

 

[andysayshi]

OS X is more for your casual daily user who just wants to browse the internet and type stuff out. Sure you can use aperture or whatever their photography program is for editing but you need a mac desktop for that. Windows is better when you'd actually like to figure out and mess with the actual computer and change most of the settings to your liking.

But that's just my 2 cents. Albeit Macs are really part of a fad right now.

Ummm... OS X is the platform of choice for film, television, desktop publishing and audio professionals all over the world. On major feature film locations MacBook Pros are used to record video-assist material and the editors are beginning to rough-cut films on-set, no desktop machines in sight. I know of several professional printing houses who now use MacBook Pros exclusively for their operations. Many mainstream music albums have been recorded using ProTools and a portable Mac.

The suggestion that OS X is less configurable than any other OS is simply wrong, and usually made by people with little OS X experience. Professional audio, video, film and publishing houses with multi-million dollar budgets would NOT be relying on an OS that was inflexible or lacked configurability.

 

[MidnightPrism]

I recently started using Safari more on XP. It's really growing on me.

I liked VISTA a lot but the cheap PC I bought came with a video card that keeps causing Vista to freeze

 

[_AJ_]

Ummm... OS X is the platform of choice for film, television, desktop publishing and audio professionals all over the world. On major feature film locations MacBook Pros are used to record video-assist material and the editors are beginning to rough-cut films on-set, no desktop machines in sight. I know of several professional printing houses who now use MacBook Pros exclusively for their operations. Many mainstream music albums have been recorded using ProTools and a portable Mac.

The suggestion that OS X is less configurable than any other OS is simply wrong, and usually made by people with little OS X experience. Professional audio, video, film and publishing houses with multi-million dollar budgets would NOT be relying on an OS that was inflexible or lacked configurability.

yeah no opinions allowed except apple rules very typical

os x as an os is not as flexible in windows and linux you can choose from many graphics modes for your windows and programs and reskin your entire os with many programs to look however you want in osx you can have the grey windows or the grey windows

just because people use programs on a computer does not make the os more flexible

and i would expect apples rating to be high since they sell a os and hardware pair they can test all possibilities on there hardware before release its like comparing an ps3 or wii or mobile phone interface experience to a pc they are made for the hardware so work better all the time

thats about all the time i have for the big headed apple users on here so see ya

 

[andysayshi]

yeah no opinions allowed except apple rules very typical

That's an unfair comment. My post was correcting some factual inaccuracies, not challenging an opinion. I've never challenged anyone's OS preference, but I've expressed my own opinion. Elucidarius expressed he feels Vista is "awesome", and so he should. I like Vista too.

os x as an os is not as flexible in windows and linux you can choose from many graphics modes for your windows and programs and reskin your entire os with many programs to look however you want in osx you can have the grey windows or the grey windows

I don't understand what "many graphics modes" means, but the ability to reskin OS X is available to anyone. Just one option: http://interfacelift.com/themes-mac/
If you consider reskinning the interface an important feature for professional OS implementation, then... I don't really know what to say to that.

Neither Vista or OS X have the configurability that Linux has, but that's pretty obvious when neither are open source like Linux. Please give examples of OS X 's inflexibility in a professional environment and I'm happy to discuss them.

A friend of mine who is currently head of IT in a new hospital in Dubai recently outfitted the entire complex with a combination of Linux and OS X machines. Windows simply didn't offer the security or media capabilities that was possible with their end solution.

Obviously, this is not always the case, and there are millions of situations where Windows is the best solution for an organization. My own company owns a few Windows machines. But to suggest that OS X is inflexible or somehow professionally inferior is just plain wrong.

and i would expect apples rating to be high since they sell a os and hardware pair they can test all possibilities on there hardware before release its like comparing an ps3 or wii or mobile phone interface experience to a pc they are made for the hardware so work better all the time

But that discounts the fact that the next companies on the list, like Dell at number 2, also sell completely pre-configured machines with tried and true hardware combinations, drivers and applications. The majority of components in an off-the-shelf Mac, like RAM, hard drives, optical drives, display cards, batteries etc, are all third party devices just like any other computer manufacturer. Apple faces driver and hardware/software issues just like any other computer manufacturer.

thats about all the time i have for the big headed apple users on here so see ya

Again, I didn't make my previous post with any aggressive or biased intent, I was just correcting factual inaccuracies. If it came across otherwise then I apologize to Elucidarius. But your anti-Mac aggression is certainly flame-war fodder, AJ.

 

[_AJ_]

I don't want this topic to turn into a flame war so I'm going to retract my statement and say they both work just fine it depends on what you like and that's that.

That's an unfair comment. My post was correcting some factual inaccuracies, not challenging an opinion. I've never challenged anyone's OS preference, but I've expressed my own opinion. Elucidarius expressed he feels Vista is "awesome", and so he should. I like Vista too.



I don't understand what "many graphics modes" means, but the ability to reskin OS X is available to anyone. Just one option: http://interfacelift.com/themes-mac/
If you consider reskinning the interface an important feature for professional OS implementation, then... I don't really know what to say to that.

Neither Vista or OS X have the configurability that Linux has, but that's pretty obvious when neither are open source like Linux. Please give examples of OS X 's inflexibility in a professional environment and I'm happy to discuss them.

A friend of mine who is currently head of IT in a new hospital in Dubai recently outfitted the entire complex with a combination of Linux and OS X machines. Windows simply didn't offer the security or media capabilities that was possible with their end solution.

Obviously, this is not always the case, and there are millions of situations where Windows is the best solution for an organization. My own company owns a few Windows machines. But to suggest that OS X is inflexible or somehow professionally inferior is just plain wrong.



But that discounts the fact that the next companies on the list, like Dell at number 2, also sell completely pre-configured machines with tried and true hardware combinations, drivers and applications. The majority of components in an off-the-shelf Mac, like RAM, hard drives, optical drives, display cards, batteries etc, are all third party devices just like any other computer manufacturer. Apple faces driver and hardware/software issues just like any other computer manufacturer.



Again, I didn't make my previous post with any aggressive or biased intent, I was just correcting factual inaccuracies. If it came across otherwise then I apologize to Elucidarius. But your anti-Mac aggression is certainly flame-war fodder, AJ.

well looking at what Elucidarius said above made me angry that basically he had an opinion and you tore it down inaccurately because you said that because people use programs on a mac makes the os flexible but that is not what he said he said windows as an os is more flexible

all i did was give an example windows has 3 default window designs which you can use in any colour you want as standard

where is dells operating system that you just said the make for there hardware?

no one said that osx was "But to suggest that OS X is inflexible or somehow professionally inferior" at all you are reading to much into things to paranoid i guess

but osx is better for idiots i dont mean you but it is

apparently there are programs for macs now who knew i thought it was all some sort of magical Jobs teet that some how made things just work well except for the last few things they released

but there are thing you cant do on the os autocad and engineering stuff for one

i am sorry about my response a bit but i really hate that it seems like on here its the mac way or we will whine and bitch at you till you agree with us way so in other words the mac way

also i dont do alot of tinkering so ask noelie what he does that he couldn't do on a mac

to busy playing games

 

[andysayshi]

Sorry AJ, honestly no offense intended, but I genuinely can barely make sense of your post. You really need to proof-read and punctuate.

And I've got work to do

 

[_AJ_]

Let me put it this way i dont really post much in this forum anymore because no matter what i am talking about it turns into someone saying that apple is so much better and everything else is crap

you watch noelies post on the microsoft sphere thin turn into apple guys saying its crap (although it does seem pretty pointless that one a large pole thing would be better) but pointless doesn't mean crap which is where it will end up

i was going to post about the samsung omnia phone which has this cool video

and is really a good iphone competitor but i really dont want to because i know where it will go i will be shouted down and the phone will be called total crap because its interface is not perfect so why bother

then i come into this forum again only to see people pretty much getting people to not come back here because of the way they get treated

this forum should be the apple forum there is no room for anything else here